Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 10 Tea Tree

"Where is there a piece of tree bubble, but it's a pity that it's not ripe yet? Otherwise, I can pick some and go home to satisfy my siblings." After seeing a piece of tree bubble that was not yet ripe, Xie Fanxing said with some regret.

"It will be ripe in the future. Let's pick it later. There is a raspberry tree in front of it, which has fruited and is not yet ripe. Next time when it is ripe, let's pick it together. There are tea trees in the front, etc. We can also pick it up and eat it when the tea tree grows out." Seeing Fan Xing, it seemed like it was the first time she went up the mountain, she was a little surprised when she saw everything, she said a little funny.

"Tea tree brewing, auntie, have you heard of tea seed oil?" Xie Fanxing couldn't help but think of something when she heard her aunt talk about tea tree brewing, and asked with a twitch in her heart.

"Tea seed oil, what is this?" Qian asked without understanding.

"Oh! It's nothing, Uncle and Aunt, are all the oils we eat extracted from animals?" Xie Fanxing asked with a little joy when she heard this.

Is it possible that there is no oil extracted from plants in this era?This is a waste of tea seeds, and they don't even pick them up to refine oil to eat.However, Xie Fanxing asked again worriedly.

"It's natural. Could it be that there are other edible oils?" Qian felt that Fanxing's question was a bit strange, so she asked back.

"Last time I fell down from the mountain, and it seemed that I stepped on a plant that produced oil. That's why I fell. My niece has little knowledge, so I just asked casually." Xie Fanxing seemed to find a reason at random. In fact, she did it for the future when she extracted tea seed oil from tea seeds as a foreshadowing, to find a reason for the past, and to be ready for everything.

"Anyway, your uncle has only eaten oil extracted from animals. As for whether there are other edible oils, I don't know. Our place is small and remote, and there may be some larger cities.

Fanxing, look, the place where the long tea trees are brewed has arrived. "Xie Zhong pointed to the patch of more than a dozen tea trees and said to Xie Fanxing.

Xie Fanxing followed her uncle's fingers and saw a dozen or so tea trees not far from them.

The tea tree is not tall, with a thick and curved trunk. The tea tree seems to have grown here for many years.

Xie Fanxing took a look around the dozen or so tea trees. In fact, she used a hoe to turn over the dead branches under the tea trees a few times, and saw that there were indeed a lot of tea seeds on the ground last year.

Since no one picked them, the tea seeds naturally fell off and fell to the ground.

Some have fallen off with their shells, some have fallen off their shells, some have fallen off, and some have been buried on the ground for a long time and have become moldy and deteriorated.

Xie Fanxing only took a cursory look, guessing that there are a lot of tea seeds that can be picked up and used to squeeze tea oil.

Seeing this, Xie Fanxing was overjoyed, the trip up the mountain was not in vain.

This is at least the source of the oil is found, and it saves a lot of money to buy suet and boil the oil.

"Don't look at Fanxing, the tea trees haven't grown yet, and there's nothing to see, let's go to the next hunting trap." Seeing the smile on Fanxing's face, Mrs. Qian was very rare with more than a dozen tea trees, She always felt that Fan Xing was a bit strange, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Oh! It's coming."

"This trap was triggered, but it's a pity that the pheasant escaped." When Xie Zhong came to the first trap they made, and saw that the trap was activated, and there was no prey inside, only a few chicken feathers, Xie Zhong said regretfully.

"Uncle, you made these traps yourself, can you catch prey in the past?" Xie Fanxing was speechless when she saw the traps her uncle made. , and put some food to attract pheasants and hares to eat.

Once any prey comes to eat, it will definitely step into the air and fall into the pit they dug.

However, the hole was not dug too deep, and if the pheasant fell, nine out of ten it would struggle and fly out.

"You can catch three or four prey a month!" Qian replied.

"It's all wild rabbits!" Xie Fanxing thought without thinking.

This kind of pit is estimated to be caught by Xie Zhong and Qian Shi only if the stupid rabbit falls into it and cannot climb it.

Otherwise, other prey would not be so easy to catch.

"Fan Xing, how do you know that?" Before he could say anything, his niece guessed it, and Xie Zhong asked curiously.

"This kind of trap is too simple and rough. You don't need to think about it. A pheasant can fly up if it falls, but a stupid rabbit can't climb up after falling. Uncle, how is your knitting work?" Xie Fanxing didn't know What did she think of? She looked at his uncle's hands with bright eyes and asked.

"It's okay! The dustpan and basket in the house are all woven by me." Xie Zhong didn't know why his niece asked this, and he replied honestly.

"Uncle! Let's go back quickly after watching you make traps. I'll teach you a way to make chicken coops for hunting. This hunting method is much faster than digging traps like yours.

But dear brother, settle the score clearly, if the niece teaches you how to hunt much faster, you will get half of the prey you catch in the future. "

"If your way of hunting really works, why not."

I went up the mountain this morning and saw five traps made by Xie Zhong and the others. Only one trap caught a silly rabbit.

After seeing the traps and setting them up again, Qian took Xie Fanxing to a bamboo forest and began to pull up the bamboo shoots.

You can't go back empty-handed when you enter the mountain, you have to bring something home.

After returning home, Xie Fanxing went directly to her uncle's house and told her uncle to weave a chicken coop. The weaving of the chicken coop should not be too fine, so that the pheasants and hares could not see the bait in the coop.

The chicken coop must be woven into a zigzag shape, and a door should be set up at each corner of the chicken coop.

This door can only enter but not exit. After weaving, let his uncle put rice grains, radishes and other things in the cage to attract pheasants and hares to eat.

As long as these pheasants and hares enter the chicken coop, they will not be able to get out, nor will they be able to escape.

As for where to put them, Xie Fanxing asked her uncle to put these chicken coops in places where wild rabbits and pheasants often haunt.

"Fan Xing, do you think this is how you knit?" Her uncle's hands were really dexterous, Xie Fanxing only narrated it once, and Xie Zhong knit what Xie Fanxing wanted.

"Not to mention, the door of this chicken coop is well designed, the cage door can only be opened by entering from the outside, if you want to come out from the inside, the cage door is blocked and you can't get out.

In this way, the pheasants and hares that are attracted by the food will not be able to get out. "At the side, Qian saw her head weaving the hunting chicken coop, and after understanding the principle, Qian was also full of praise.

(End of this chapter)